pc troubleshooting

[James_N]

ok so i was tryin to run Battlefield 2 but it wont work. read some things and it said to update all your drivers, so i did. Still didnt work. updated the motherboard as well. Got some help and it said to flash your bios. After flashin the bios, my pc wont pick up the cd rom drive. I installed a new one and it still wont do anything. Now my pc is extremely slow and no cd-rom drive.

System specs are:

Mainboard : MSI MS-6570
Chipset : nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400
Processor : AMD Athlon XP @ 1833 MHz
Physical Memory : 1024 MB (2 x 512 DDR-SDRAM )
Video Card : ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9600 Series (V350)
Hard Disk : WDC (80 GB)
Monitor Type : LG Electronics (GoldStar) T710BH - 16 inchs
Network Card : Nvidia Corp nForce MCP-T Networking Adapter
Network Card : D-Link Inc DFE-550TX/580TX Fast Ethernet Adapter
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professionnal 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
DirectX : Version 9.0c (March 2005)

[ds2chan]

flashing the bios of any hardware is always a risk but it wouldn\'t solve your gaming problems.. I\'m assuming it went all the way through 100% without any type of failure.. the new version of the bios may have bugs or something.. did you get it straight from MSI?? if so, then I would contact them to see if they can do anything to help you.. they may have seen this problem before..

also, you may want to check your settings in the bios to make sure everything looks to be ok.. I don\'t know if you can turn off the primary or slave connections at all but it\'s worth a look around just to be absolutely sure..

also, what exactly is the error message you were getting from the game?? all you said is that it wouldn\'t work.

below are the specs needed to play according to www.futureshop.ca so you should be ok..
* CD-ROM: 8X
* CPU Speed: 1.7GHz
* CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon XP
* Disk Space: 2.3GB
* Graphics: Video Card With 128MB Or More Memory, And Either NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Or Greater or ATI Radeon 8500 Or Greater Cards
* Memory (RAM): 512MB
* Operating System Compatibility: XP, Not Mac Compatible

[James_N]

gave up on BF2. just want my pc working properly again. There was no errors when u log in. all it did was send u back to desktop. i\'ll re check the settings in the bios again. if that doesnt work i\'ll see if one of my pc guru friends could help

thanx

James

[torpedo20]

Sorry,
I didn\'t see your post earlier. You might want to check these forums (very helpful info!):

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/index.asp

IMHO,
judging by the system specs you gave us BF2 would be slow (read:crappy) on your box.
Hell, that game just barely runs on mine :D